Joe Pelonio
10-17-2005, 2:26 PM
I thought with many of you living in or being near old buildings, or even using really old wood, I'd see if any one else has any experience with what could be considered ghosts. Having watched "Ghosts Hunters" on TV and finding it entertaining, most of what they find is explained by normal things, yet my wife and I had an experience that makes us wonder. She will never go back to the Palace Hotel where we stayed overnight in Port Townsend, WA. last summer.
Maybe the place being over 100 years old made it a little creepy to begin with, then we got the key at 5pm but did not return until about midnight, so had to use the side entrance. At the top of the first flight of stairs was a picture of a woman, and we both avoided looking at the eyes, it just was one of those where you almost expect to see them move. Up on the 3rd floor in our room there was one of those fans on a stand, we liked the air but not directly on us so I turned it toward the foot of the bed. Later I was awakened by the air hitting me in the face, so got up and turned on the light but the fan was still aimed at the foot of the bed. So I turned it off
and spend a good part of the rest of the night wondering if I was nuts.
At the time we did not know that it was thought to be haunted by 3 ghosts, one the madame and one a worker from when it had been a brothel years ago, the other a victim of domestic violence who had been pushed out the 3rd floor window. They even have a guest book specifically for people to write down "superatural" experiences. Nothing about ghosts is mentioned on their website, though.
http://www.palacehotelpt.com/history.html
I mention it now because I just found out that there is going to be a ghost hunter convention there next month.
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/218568
Maybe the place being over 100 years old made it a little creepy to begin with, then we got the key at 5pm but did not return until about midnight, so had to use the side entrance. At the top of the first flight of stairs was a picture of a woman, and we both avoided looking at the eyes, it just was one of those where you almost expect to see them move. Up on the 3rd floor in our room there was one of those fans on a stand, we liked the air but not directly on us so I turned it toward the foot of the bed. Later I was awakened by the air hitting me in the face, so got up and turned on the light but the fan was still aimed at the foot of the bed. So I turned it off
and spend a good part of the rest of the night wondering if I was nuts.
At the time we did not know that it was thought to be haunted by 3 ghosts, one the madame and one a worker from when it had been a brothel years ago, the other a victim of domestic violence who had been pushed out the 3rd floor window. They even have a guest book specifically for people to write down "superatural" experiences. Nothing about ghosts is mentioned on their website, though.
http://www.palacehotelpt.com/history.html
I mention it now because I just found out that there is going to be a ghost hunter convention there next month.
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/218568